When people were making their top 20 lists in the Battle thread last week, I thought it might be interesting to limit it to a single year to see if it might highlight some interesting trends. And listing 20 if possible should be a large enough sample size to go beyond just our usual favorites and see how some different kinds of shows compare for different people.

I'm not actually sure if I'll get to doing anything with that, but either way it could be a neat retrospective.

You can customize your lists but for my purposes I'm looking only at TV anime that began airing during 2013.

So carryovers from Fall 2012 wouldn't qualify, but shows that carried over into 2014 would.

If you want to make up your own parameters though (like including OVAs, movies, etc.) definitely feel free to do so.

Hmm list is tentative...simply going by what I can recall.
Argh this might be harder than I thought, some shows should def be higher than I rank them......
Wanna put Crowds at spot 3.....but....it is at 9.

This list was difficult to make...especially since I don't like numbering things. Still probably isn't exactly right, but close enough. Not going to count long running, OVAs, re-airings or anything else that isn't a normal 1-2 cour show.

Making this list made me realize there are over a dozen shows I still want to watch from 2013, sigh.

The top two are 10/10 masterpiece level anime for me. They hit all the right notes to make me fully immersed in the experience and I was never disappointed. Numbers 3-11 I consider quite exceptional but lacking in one thing or another in terms of execution. The rest are good fun and I consider them mostly well done for what they are. The ones in honorable mention are good too, but just did not make the cut above the rest for me. These are all the anime I completed, besides maybe a couple *cough* Coppelion *cough*, from 2013 btw.